Summers are great because I have more time to try out new software. With the work on the upcoming language technology boot camp manual (released next Friday! more on that soon), I learned a lot more about inDesign CS3.
But that program is a behemoth, sometimes overly complicated. So I am also a big fan of [...]

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[cross-posted on techotuesday]
After two days of Office2007 training, I’ve a few pieces of info that might be of interest to language folks:

Publish Directly to Blog
This is pretty cool: if you don’t like your blog’s online post editor, or frequently need to blog when no intartubes are available, Word can automagically take content you’ve created in [...]

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Recently I’ve noticed a trend towards taking web apps and integrated them more fully into the desktop environment so they act more like normal locally-installed software. (Which seems to defeat the purpose of using web apps? But I digress.) This week’s episode is an overview of three major pieces of that trend: the $200 Walmart [...]

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Hello again from Denver! Here’s yet -another- list of free apps that I hope you find as interesting as I did …

bFree: a freeware program built by UNC-Chapel Hill that allows you to open a Blackboard course’s archive file, to view the documents in a usable file structure, and to extract files individually or in [...]

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I know, I know - it’s Tuesday and we haven’t had a new episode of Tech-o Tuesday in what seems like forever! Well, Felix and I have been incredibly busy and / or sick, but we’re scheduling the next episodes right now. In the meantime, I finally found an evening to sit down and read [...]

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